Sing, Sweet Harp Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCEAFAF GHGHICICGHGH JKJKLALADMDM| Sing sweet Harp oh sing to me | A |
| Some song of ancient days | B |
| Whose sounds in this sad memory | A |
| Long buried dreams shall raise | B |
| Some lay that tells of vanish'd fame | C |
| Whose light once round us shone | D |
| Of noble pride now turn'd to shame | C |
| And hopes for ever gone | E |
| Sing sad Harp thus sing to me | A |
| Alike our doom is cast | F |
| Both lost to all but memory | A |
| We live but in the past | F |
| - | |
| How mournfully the midnight air | G |
| Among thy chords doth sigh | H |
| As if it sought some echo there | G |
| Of voices long gone by | H |
| Of chieftains now forgot who seem'd | I |
| The foremost then in fame | C |
| Of Bards who once immortal deem'd | I |
| Now sleep without a name | C |
| In vain sad Harp the midnight air | G |
| Among thy chords doth sigh | H |
| In vain it seeks an echo there | G |
| Of voices long gone by | H |
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| Couldst thou but call those spirits round | J |
| Who once in bower and hall | K |
| Sate listening to thy magic sound | J |
| Now mute and mouldering all | K |
| But no they would but wake to weep | L |
| Their children's slavery | A |
| Then leave them in their dreamless sleep | L |
| The dead at least are free | A |
| Hush hush sad Harp that dreary tone | D |
| That knell of Freedom's day | M |
| Or listening to its death like moan | D |
| Let me too die away | M |
Thomas Moore
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